Hey Journey Church..

Wanted to give everyone an update on the possibility of signing a building lease and the iBuild Campaign.

Your generosity is amazing and we are extremely proud of everyone’s incredible gifts towards Journey’s future facilities. Your heart to reach others by putting God First in every area of your life is unlike any group of people I have ever been associated with.

This past weekend the people of Journey donated just under $25,000 over and above our normal tithes and offerings. Additionally we received $106,000 in commitments to the building campaign.

That being said, we met the high end of our upfront financial goal but are about $14,000 shy of where we would like to be on the one year commitments. Since this past weekend was time change weekend which results in a slightly lower attendance we are going to extend the iBuild commitment opportunity 1 more week to give anyone who might have missed church an opportunity to participate in the campaign.

Note: This is not necessarily a deal breaker. No matter what we will have to take a short term construction loan. The heart of the leadership was that we might be able to pay off any loan 100% through commitments prior to rent kicking in. If we can cut back on a few things, use one month of our free rent, and/or every dollar of those commitments is realized we can still move forward with the lease.

Additionally, please keep praying for the following:

1) That additional commitments and or 1 time gifts of over $14,000 will come in this week.

2) Pray that a few final lease details we are still haggling over can be worked out and that no deal breakers arise.

If you didn’t make a commitment this past weekend and would like to do so now visit: http://www.t90x.org/rotater/ibuild-campaign/

If you would like to make a one time donation now visit the home page of http://www.journeychurch.org and click “Donate Online”

Thank you all..

Eric

Let me start by saying I am not sure this building is the one, but man do I think it has potential. Your gonna ask what building so I will tell you so you can pray about this or other buildings we look at. Today we toured the old Crazy Horse Bar building less than 3 minutes south of us on Blanding. The building is 3 times the size of our current space and it is the perfect type of an opportunity for us as a church. Additionally, it will be within 1 mile of the new highway that will soon be under construction in Clay County, so it is close to the heart of where the future growth of the county will actually be.

OK, enough about that property, lets talk about what it will take generally for us to get into the next bigger space using some rough estimates so that during the course of this fast we can all be praying to God for the resources and also consider if God would have our families play a role through our time, talents, and finances in seeing it come to pass.

Our goal as a church is to keep building finances at roughly 20-25% of the churches gross income. Today we are a at about 21.5% of our income, but we continue to grow as a church and earnestly believe that the building is becoming a lid on our growth. We have explored options for parking, expanding the sanctuary, etc. and have really come to the conclusion that we need to get into a new facility to continue to grow at the rate we have to date.

So, new building – close to 3x the size probably a little more than 2x the rent. Which means that we would need to get the landowner to give us rent concessions to allow us room to grow which they seem more than willing to do so we don’t see this as a big obstacle.

OK – here is the bigger challenge – as a young church that attracts young people we don’t have a great deal of $ in the bank yet. We would probably need to raise about $150,000-$250,000 or so over our current tithes and offerings to build out any space that is of the next size of where we need to be.

So church, would you begin to pray that we could raise a minimum of $150,000 between now and August? That is 150 families donating $1000 this year over their normal tithes and offerings. These numbers are not huge, they are actually managable and God willing we will be able to accomplish this.

Please post your thoughts, comments, prayers and heck if you are ready to donate to get this ball rolling visit http://www.journeychurch.org and use that DONATE button to get us started.

Lets turn what was the counties largest bar into one of the counties premier churches!

Journey Church is excited to announce 1st Wednesday services. Starts @ 7:00pm

It will be an intense time of connecting with God through focused praise and worship and prayer.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Challenging journey church to make a minimum of 1500 thegiftrevolution.com touches this week.

Intentional, persistent, 25 days to change the world. We can do it if each of us touches 3-5 people.

Church go for it, a gift and a card. A gift and a card.

You can change the world.

Free way to to it. Write a note of encouragement to someone this week.

Place a $1 and a card somewhere to bless a life.

Journey Next's First self made youth video to promote the "The Purpose" series.

I couldn't be more proud of them. Great job Pastor Matt and team. The service was incredible. The energy was awesome – the message was great. What an incredible, incredible youth launch.

I couldn't be more honored to serve with you guys.

Check out www.journeynext.org

What's The Purpose from Eric Jaffe on Vimeo.